Joanne DeVoe: Observations in Palestine

My husband and I returned recently from a two-week trip to Israel that included Jerusalem and the areas where Palestinians reside.

My husband and I returned recently from a two-week trip to Israel that included Jerusalem and the areas where Palestinians reside.

Palestinians cannot move freely in their own ‘country.’ They are only ‘residents’ of one of the areas into which

Israel has divided the Palestinians’ land.

Palestinians never know when their homes or neighborhoods or one floor of their buildings will be taken from them and transformed into an Israeli ‘settlement’, further disrupting their lives with security fences.

This situation is not a ‘conflict” – that term would imply a struggle between near-equals. In this case Israel has nearly all power.